The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

I have wondered about time all my life.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

A wet spot on the floor kind of put a scare in myself, so you never know inside those lines what might happen.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

Let no such man be trusted.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Traveling around the world and preaching for over 70 years did not give much time for reflection.

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

In whatever adulation you get, there’s truth and there’s not truth. And wherever they dog you, and they say it was horrible – there’s truth and there’s not truth. It’s human nature to like to read the adulation more.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.